Tender Comrade (1943)

Robert Ryan: Chris Jones

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• Chris Jones : I love you Jo. The way I love you is like a fever that is all over me. Write me, baby. Write me whenever you can. And just keep thinking that everything's gonna turn out all right and it will.

  Jo Jones : Oh, Chris, I'll write you everyday. Every minute, every second, I'll be sending you messages. And remember to take care of yourself and watch yourself if you should catch a cold - you know how they always sneak up on ya. And don't pay any attention to those English or Australian or Chinese girls. And come back to me Chris. Come back to me soon as you can.

  Chris Jones : No matter how tough things are, no matter how bad they seem, all I'll have to do is think of you and I'll come through. Goodbye, girl.

• Chris Jones : Let me take a look at you. Same eyes. Same nose. Same funny little mouth. Same girl.

  [kisses Jo] 

• Jo Jones : Oh, Chris, how long can you stay?

  Chris Jones : We're leaving at 6:30 in the morning. Our outfit's going overseas.

  Jo Jones : Oh, Chris! Where?

  Chris Jones : Don't get excited. How do I know? Am I the Secretary of War?

  Jo Jones : I always said it wouldn't happen and I knew it would. I knew it!

  Chris Jones : Hey, hey, this is no funeral.

• Chris Jones : I'm home for the night. I want a hot bath, a cold drink, and a kiss.

  [kisses Jo] 

  Chris Jones : And I'll have the bath first, about 75 degrees, and make it snappy.

• Chris Jones : How long have you been up?

  Jo Jones : Since 3. I slept in the chair.

  Chris Jones : What's the idea of that?

  Jo Jones : Well, I either had to get up or be kicked out. You're still an awful bed hog! I thought the army would cure you of that.

• Chris Jones : How's my babe, this morning?

  Jo Jones : All right. And don't call me babe.

  Chris Jones : Why not?

  Jo Jones : Because it's not very respectful, you lug.

• Chris Jones : You know, I've been thinking.

  Jo Jones : There you go exaggerating again.

• Jo Jones : All I did yesterday was just to scrub the back porch and clean out the basement and take those slips over to mother's house and get you your breakfast and get you your lunch and get you your...

  Chris Jones : Will you lay off! You sound like I was making a galley slave out of you.

  Jo Jones : Well, that's exactly what you are trying to do. All day long, it's just work, work, work, day-in, day-out, trying to keep the house neat and clean and trying to keep you fed.

• Jo Jones : Look, you want money? Okay! I'll go out and get a job. And we can just stack it up in the bank, higher and higher and higher, until we've got so much, we'll never see each other.

  Chris Jones : Now, there's no reason to fly off the handle.

  Jo Jones : Either you give up this night work and spend your evenings with me, or, I'll go out tomorrow morning and get myself a job!

  Chris Jones : You'll do nothing of the sort, Jo!

  Jo Jones : I will so! I'll sling sodas, I'll wait tables, I'll even wash dishes! You can just make up your mind to it, right now!

• Jo Jones : Oh, Chris, I didn't mean to be such an ornery old hag; but, you make me so darn mad.

  Chris Jones : I guess I'm pretty much of a dope.

  Jo Jones : Oh, no Chris. You're the smartest guy I ever saw; but, you must try to remember that I'm a little bit smart too.